Envious of those folks at protests and actions who always seem to have all the facts? Read this book and know what you're talking about at the next WTO, World Bank, or anti-war protest! This super cool looking graphic novel challenges heroic stories of American history by placing the U.S.'s current occupation of Iraq and "intervention" in Afghanistan within the broader history of U.S. imperialism.

A graphic adaptation of American history from the larger-than-life popular historian Howard Zinn, this book covers American interventions abroad from 1890 to 11 September 2001. Mike Konopacki's illustrations are paired with photographs, documents, and artifacts from each episode. This creates a really neat looking visual effect, a collage of cartoon and "the real."

A nice companion to the U.S. Military history since 1776

In this lecture, recorded a month after 9/11, America's finest social historian examines the role and response of artists in society, and particularly during wartime and crisis. With his distinctive blend of low key wit, expansive knowledge of history, and Sherlockian ability to uncover the real stories of this country underneath the detrius of corporate disinformation and monoculture, Zinn - through the words and actions of the likes of Langston Hughes, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Heller, EE Cummings, Dalton Trumbo, Arthur Miller, Eartha Kitt, Kurt Vonnegut, and Daniel Berrigan - illustrates that pride in one's country comes not from the words and deeds of government, but from the actions of working people.

Zinn takes us back a century to a newly industrialized America, the time of robber barons & tycoons, of tenements bursting with immigrants, of dramatic and often violent labor struggles like Haymarket and Homestead. Includes Vanderbilt, Carnegie, young J.Edgar Hoover, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and George Bernard Shaw. The focus is the organizers and agitators in the worker and immigrant communities.

In these turbulent times, Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States", is inspiring a new generation. This acclaimed film looks at the amazing life of the renowned historian, activist and author. Following his early days as a shipyard labor organizer and bombardier in World War II, Zinn became an academic rebel and leader of civil disobedience in a time of institutionalized racism and war. His influential writings shine light on and bring voice to factory workers, immigrant laborers, African Americans, Native Americans and the working poor.

Featuring rare archival materials and interviews with Zinn and colleagues such as Noam Chomsky, You Can't Be Neutral captures the essence of this extraordinary man who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years.

Narrated by Matt Damon · Featuring music by Pearl Jam, Woody Guthrie & Billy Bragg!

"He has changed the consciousness of a generation." -Noam Chomsky

Bonus DVD footage includes: On Human Nature And Agression; Speech at Veterans For Peace Conference, 2004; Speech at Boston Common on Civil Disobedience, 1971 (audio only); Zinn's Recommended Reading List; Transcription of Boston Common Speech; Biographies; Trailer Gallery...and more!

Zinn is the author of "A People's History of the United States" and is a popular radical historian. New and selected writings on a subject that has concerned and fascinated Zinn throughout his career. Zinn's opinions on the recent wars in Iraq and Kosovo as well as Vietnam and World War II. The meaning of war generally in a world that has so far proven unable to overcome the predilection of nations for destroying their neighbors. He explores our warring ways as well as his own transformation from Navy Yard shipfitter to bombardier to anti-war activist. War has always been used by governments for political ends. The American gov't has grown increasingly adept at directing a highly sophisticated public relations campaign as part of any military adventure. Zinn suggests that during war the most patriotic act for a citizen is to ask questions. "the great challenge of our time [is] how to achieve justice, with struggle, but without war."

Howard Zinn has written a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. This book is an excellent antidote to establishment history, especially high school textbooks. Seldom have quotations been so effectively used; the stories of people of color, women, native Americans, and working class laborers of all nationalities are told in their own words. While the book is precise enough to please specialists, it should satisfy any adult reader. Sure, it's published by Rupert Murdoch, but it doesn't make it any less essential, or revolutionary of a work - especially when you can purchase it used - and he doesn't get a dime! (unlike your MySpace account).

A lecture at Reed College in Portland, OR by the author of the book by the same name. Zinn shows us why he is our foremost historian of political struggle, of social movements, and of the forgotten or suppressed parts of history. He traces the origins of his work to the working class background and his first teaching job, at a black college in Georgia in 1956, where he and his students were among leaders of the civil rights movement. He tells us how the civil rights, labor, anti-war, and women's struggles became both the inspiration for and his subjects of his research and writing. He tells the stories of ordinary people who thrust themselves into history making situations, and how such struggles were ignored, suppressed, or distorted by both the media and traditional historians.

Howard Zinn has written a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. This book is an excellent antidote to establishment history, especially high school textbooks. Seldom have quotations been so effectively used; the stories of people of color, women, native Americans, and working class laborers of all nationalities are told in their own words. While the book is precise enough to please specialists, it should satisfy any adult reader.

This time around Zinn explains how films portray history, particularly historical films often mirror an establishment view of history than portraying the past from the people's perspective. Stories of films he'd like to see Hollywood make like Shay's Rebellion, Irish Immigrant troops fighting for Mexico against the US, Helen Keller as a radical, anti war activist and socialist, as she was, or the march of 12 year old workers form PA and WV to President Teddy Roosevelt's summer home.

These books are so cool! They're primer versions of the classic People's History by Howard Zinn! I imagine giving then to my little cousins when they get older, even if it makes their parents think that I'm a total wingnut. Volume one opens with the arrival of Columbus from an Arawak perspective, and closes with the real reasons America participated in the Spanish American War. These books aren't very objective, but they're a refreshing deviation from standard textbooks. Instead of unlearning the history you're taught, try learning an alternate history. It's an awesome approach!

Volume two in the series brings us up to the present day. This volume begins with a reflection on the Spanish-American war by none other than anarchist Emma Goldman. It follows all the major American wars, the Great Depression, civil rights, and ends with the war on terror, the war in Iraq, and the anti-war movement. Again, I think this is a great set for any young person, or really anyone who wants a basic overview of American history from the people's perspective.